Disabled commuter train cleared outside NYC

NEW YORK – Workers have removed a New Jersey Transit commuter train that became disabled just outside the Hudson River tunnel in New York City.

NJ Transit spokesman William Smith says the Northeast Corridor train, carrying approximately 1,000 passengers, was scheduled to arrive at Penn Station at 8:39 a.m. Tuesday when it broke down near 10th Avenue.

It was removed just before 10 a.m.

Smith does not know what caused the mechanical problem.

The incident is causing delays on Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast, Raritan Valley. Morris & Essex and Montclair-Boonton line trains in and out of New York’s Penn Station.